This year's 'mindset list' for the class of 2016

Each year, Beloit College releases a list of traits that define the entering college class.

As the authors put it, this class was "born into cyberspace." They tell us that these students listen to MP3's and iPods and get their news from "The Daily Show" and YouTube. "They watch television everywhere but on a television," the list says.

Take a look, then let me know what you think. Incoming freshmen: I'd especially like to hear from you.

For this generation of entering college students, born in 1994, Kurt Cobain, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Richard Nixon and John Wayne Gacy have always been dead.

They should keep their eyes open for Justin Bieber or Dakota Fanning at freshman orientation.

They have always lived in cyberspace, addicted to a new generation of “electronic narcotics.”

The Biblical sources of terms such as “Forbidden Fruit,” “The writing on the wall,” “Good Samaritan,” and “The Promised Land” are unknown to most of them.

Pulp Fiction’s meal of a "Royale with Cheese" and an “Amos and Andy milkshake” has little or no resonance with them.

Point-and-shoot cameras are soooooo last millennium.

Despite being preferred urban gathering places, two-thirds of the independent bookstores in the United States have closed for good during their lifetimes.

Astronauts have always spent well over a year in a single space flight.

Lou Gehrig's record for most consecutive baseball games played has never stood in their lifetimes.

Genomes of living things have always been sequenced.

The Sistine Chapel ceiling has always been brighter and cleaner.

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